Post by Boz on Dec 10, 2010 9:36:01 GMT -5

I'm pretty sure my head is going to explode if I spend any time on the basketball board today (are we an NIT team with a lousy coach yet? are we eviscerating individual players?), so I am counting on all of you to keep me distracted throughout the day.

"You'd be crazy NOT to!" -- Donagh Gilhooly, bartender and wisest of men

Post by Boz on Dec 30, 2010 9:47:25 GMT -5

It's fairly easy, or should be for anyone here, but there are a couple of tough ones toward the end.

FTR, I got two wrong, the TARP question and the last question.

I don't feel too bad about getting the TARP question wrong, even though I should have known the answer. Of course I feel very stupid for getting the last question wrong, but at the same time, it's kind of a curve ball and I don't think it really measures your news IQ. But whatever.

Also, be prepared to be angry at seeing how few people can get even half of these right.

"You'd be crazy NOT to!" -- Donagh Gilhooly, bartender and wisest of men

Post by SirSaxa on Dec 30, 2010 10:55:49 GMT -5

It's fairly easy, or should be for anyone here, but there are a couple of tough ones toward the end.

FTR, I got two wrong, the TARP question and the last question.

I don't feel too bad about getting the TARP question wrong, even though I should have known the answer. Of course I feel very stupid for getting the last question wrong, but at the same time, it's kind of a curve ball and I don't think it really measures your news IQ. But whatever.

Also, be prepared to be angry at seeing how few people can get even half of these right.

OK, easy test and, FTR, I got them all right.More interesting, a couple of things to point out on the demographic breakdown of results ... not taking any position on these, just citing results:

1. Males scored higher than females across the board and on each question

2. College Grads scored higher than "Some college", who scored higher than "HS or less" across the board and on each question

3. 50+ scored higher than 30-49, who scored higher than 18-29 across the board. BUT, that pattern was reversed on the last two questions. Interesting. Especially the second last question. That result (age performance) surprised me.

Post by The Stig on Dec 30, 2010 12:20:36 GMT -5

It's fairly easy, or should be for anyone here, but there are a couple of tough ones toward the end.

FTR, I got two wrong, the TARP question and the last question.

I don't feel too bad about getting the TARP question wrong, even though I should have known the answer. Of course I feel very stupid for getting the last question wrong, but at the same time, it's kind of a curve ball and I don't think it really measures your news IQ. But whatever.

Also, be prepared to be angry at seeing how few people can get even half of these right.

The results are depressing. I wish we could see the breakdown for how much each option got picked. I wonder how many people think that Richard Branson is the UK PM.

I got all of them right, although I was around 50/50 on a few of them.

"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit.' And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high." -Ayrton Senna